You can walk to the special train station for the train to mount Etna. It makes for a very pleasant day outing. We stopped at a little town and walked around, then returned by a different train that took us near the bus station. We walked back to our hotel from the bus station. More

On our last day on the island we went to Etna, and it was the best day of the holiday. We went on a monday, on quite a cool day (for Sicily anyway) and it was really quiet. All the way up to the base camp type area at the south side we had spectacular views. Once parked up we... More

We had a great afternoon on the slopes of mount Etna. The views are fantastic. The multicoloured volcanic rocks are very beautiful. We took the gondola up and then walked up a little, we really felt the altitude, and so did the kids (both asleep in the car after running around at 2'500m). The crater nearest to the car park... More

The tour bus drove up to about 2000 meters. The site attracts many tourists. You can walk up 2 craters which are close to the bus parking lot. It was windy. I had very little interest in hiking up any further. There is a ski lift if you want to get higher without hiking. More

We boooked the Taormina tour on-line during a cruise stop in Messina. Although our expectations were low about visiting Sicily, it turned out to be the best day of the entire cruise due to the wonderful service provided by Sicily Limousine Services. Their guide Claudio picked the four of us up at the dock in a luxurious Mercedes mini-van and... More

We went to taormine for our honeymoon at the start of may and decided to take a tour to mount Etna. We booked it in taormine at a local tour office and paid 34euros each. We met at the local bus terminal at 8am and took our place on the bus. We stopped on the way to a house which... More

We were on a cruise and this was an excursion. We were picked up from port and took about 2 hours to reach Etna. You could see Mount Etna from quite some way and she was gently smoking. She had errupted 2 weeks prior to our visit. Once there we went round some of the craters that had been made... More

We did a day tour with Etna Tours and it was fantastic. Pretty exhausting as we had lots of climbing to do, but well worth it if you have a guide that is knowledgable like ours! More

you go up in trucks with other people. can be cold and windy but great experience. More